The League of Communists in the Netherlands (Dutch: Verbond van Communisten in Nederland or VCN) was a communist political party in the Netherlands. The VCN was the result of a split in 1984 in the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), who disagreed with the revisionist and eurocommunist line of the new leadership of the CPN. Already in 1982 did an orthodox communist platform within the CPN emerged, called the Horizontaal Overleg Communisten, (Horizontal Forum of Communists) (HOC), which at first functioned as a lobby group within the CPN. Former member of parliament Fré Meis was one of its more prominent members. After the CPN Congress of 1984, in which democratic centralism and Marxism-Leninism were abandoned, did the HOC decided to split from the CPN and form the VCN.